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Sec. 16. - Official bonds.
The council may determine whether any officer or employee shall give a bond, and the amount thereof; which bond shall be given by such officer or employee, and be signed by a surety company authorized to do business in Ohio, to th...
Sec. 17. - Legislative procedure.
Five members shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a lesser number may adjourn from day to day and compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as may be prescribed by ordinance. ...
Sec. 18. - Action on ordinances or resolutions.
The action of council shall be by ordinance or resolution and the affirmative vote of at least five members of council shall be necessary to adopt any ordinance or resolution. The vote upon the passage of all ordinances, and upon ...
[ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS]
Part of Charter of the City of Columbus.
[ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS]
Cross References Action of Council - see CHTR. Sec. 18 Appropriation ordinance - see CHTR. Sec. 27 Final passage of ordinances - see CHTR. Sec. 35 Ratification ...
Sec. 19. - Ordinance enactment.
Each proposed ordinance or resolution shall be introduced in electronic, digital, written or printed form, and shall not contain more than one subject which shall be clearly stated in a title; except that general appropriation ord...
Sec. 20. - Reading procedure.
No ordinance, unless it be an emergency measure, shall be passed until it has been read at two regular meetings, not less than one week apart, or the requirement of such reading has been dispensed with by an affirmative vote of at...
Sec. 21. - [Amendments or revisions.]
No ordinance or resolution or section thereof shall be revised or amended, unless the new ordinance or resolution contains the entire ordinance or resolution or section revised or amended, and a repeal of the original ordinance, r...
Sec. 22. - Emergency measures.
All ordinances and resolutions shall be in effect from and after thirty days from the date of their passage by the council except as otherwise provided in this charter. The council may, by a vote of seven of its members, pass emer...
Sec. 23. - [Subjects for emergency ordinances.]
Ordinances appropriating money may be passed as emergency measures, but no measure making a grant, renewal or extension of a franchise or other special privileges, or regulating the rate to be charged for its service by any public...
Sec. 24. - Approval or disapproval.
Any ordinance or resolution passed by the council shall be signed by the president or other presiding officer and be presented forthwith to the mayor by the city clerk. If the mayor approves such ordinance or resolution the mayor ...
Sec. 25. - [Passing over mayor's disapproval.]
When the mayor refuses to sign an ordinance or resolution, or part thereof, and returns it to the council with objections, the council shall, after the expiration of not less than one week, proceed to reconsider it and if upon rec...
[FINANCES]
Part of Charter of the City of Columbus.
[FINANCES]
Cross References Appropriations - see Ohio Const., Art. XVIII, Sec. 10 Finance and taxation - see Title Three - FINANCE AND TAXATION CODE
Sec. 26. - Mayor's estimate.
The fiscal year of the city shall begin on the first day of January. On or before the fifteenth day of November in each year the mayor shall prepare and submit to council an estimate of the expense of conducting the affairs of the...
Sec. 27. - Appropriation ordinance.
Upon receipt of the mayor's estimate the council shall at once prepare an appropriation ordinance, in such manner as may be provided by ordinance or resolution, using the mayor's estimate as a basis. Such ordinance shall set forth...
Sec. 28. - Transfer of funds.
The council may at any time, with the approval of the mayor, transfer money so appropriated for the use of one department, division or purpose, to any other department, division or purpose; but no such transfer shall be made of mo...
Sec. 29. - Supplementary appropriation.
Any accruing revenue of the city, not appropriated as hereinbefore provided, may from time to time be appropriated by the council to such authorized uses as it may by ordinance determine.